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View SlideshowRequest to buy this photoJosh Haner | The New York TimesMourners gather for a candlelight vigil for Martin Richard, one of three people killed Monday by bombs set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The vigil was held yesterday in Boston.

BOSTON — Neighbors gathered around a chalk rainbow on a sidewalk outside 8-year-old Martin
Richard’s home while friends of Krystle Campbell, 29, posted notes on Facebook, all grieving for
two of the people killed in Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon.

The third victim, a Boston University graduate student killed while watching the race with
friends near the finish line, has not been identified by name, pending permission from the family.
But the Chinese Consulate reported the student was a Chinese national.

A Little League baseball player, Martin lived in a blue Victorian house in working-class
Dorchester with his parents, Bill and Denise; sister, Jane, 7; and brother, Henry, 10.

“Very happy, happy-go-lucky,” said Jane Sherman. Martin was afraid of her dog, a Rottweiler, she
said, but he always gave her a cheerful greeting. “An outgoing, wonderful kid. This is a horrendous
loss.”

Bill Richard told the world in an email yesterday that his son had been killed when bombs
exploded at the marathon finish line. Martin’s mother and sister were seriously injured.

“My dear son Martin has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Boston,” Bill Richard
wrote. “My wife and daughter are both recovering from serious injuries. We thank our family and
friends, those we know and those we have never met, for their thoughts and prayers.”

The family released a photo of Martin at a hockey game, dressed in Boston Bruins regalia.

Campbell’s friends remembered her outsized personality and passion for the Boston Red Sox, and
the way she belted out Eminem and Rihanna’s
Love the Way You Lie every time she heard it on the radio.

“I am shocked, stunned, and besides myself,” one friend wrote on Facebook. “You will be missed
Krystle Campbell, but your big smile and twinkling blue eyes will live forever in our hearts and
minds.”

Along with the three people killed on Monday, at least

176 people were injured.

Michael McGlynn, mayor of Medford, Mass., where Campbell grew up, said he confirmed her death
with her father, William. “Mr. Campbell said that she certainly was a dream daughter, the daughter
that every father dreams to have, and friends of hers said that she was eager about life,” he
said.

“She had a great sense of humor and freckles and red hair that brought her right to her Irish
roots. She was someone who worked hard at everything she did.

“Another friend said she may have been a little loud at times, but it was a loudness you loved,”
McGlynn said.

A wish for “Peace” written in chalk marked a memorial outside Martin’s home. Drivers slowed as
they approached it, paused, and made the sign of the cross.

Another neighbor, John Do, placed flowers there. A veteran of Vietnam’s navy, he said the attack
on the marathon was “even worse than what I saw on the battlefield. To do this to children —
horrible.” Do left in tears.

Marchell “Tiny” Watson and Margaret Admirand recalled the Richard children playing soccer and
hockey on the lawn, chalking the sidewalk with rainbows and butterflies, and dressing in costumes
for Halloween. “Can’t you just see them up there kicking the ball on the lawn?” Watson asked.

“And their little sister running after them,” Admirand said.

Watson said that for years Denise Richard had jogged up the hill, pushing her children in a
stroller, to bring Henry to school.

Martin, who recently celebrated his first Communion, had played flag football and was a member
of the Savin Hill Little League team, neighbors said. Opening day for the league was scheduled for
next week. Savin Hill Little League president Tony King said Martin was “a very, very much-loved
little kid.”

At Summer Shack, where Campbell had been a manager, she was known as a hard worker who devoted
summers to the restaurant’s food stands on islands in Boston Harbor. She took another food-industry
job several months ago for greater opportunities, said Stephanie Guerrier, who worked with Campbell
at Summer Shack.

“She was honestly the most amazing person I’ve ever met,” Guerrier said. “I’m not saying that
because she’s just passed. That’s what she really was.”

“Everybody that knew her loved her,” Campbell’s mother, Patty, said choking back tears during a
news conference “She was always smiling. You couldn’t ask for a better daughter.

“I can’t believe this has happened,” she added. “This doesn’t make any sense.”